{"id":2666,"date":"2012-05-16T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2012-06-16T02:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T06:19:43","slug":"peter-weller-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/peter-weller-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Peter Weller Playing in Star Trek 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hope Peter Weller is playing a villain in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>. His turn as the main baddie on <em>24<\/em> gave us some of that series&#8217; last great moments. Then again, he also lent a badass robotic edge to hero Alex Murphy in <em>RoboCop<\/em>, so I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s perfectly capable of doing almost any role justice in the Star Trek canon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2012\/05\/peter-weller-teases-with.php\" target=\"_blank\">Blastr: Peter Weller teases with cryptic clues about his Star Trek 2 role<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2012\/05\/peter-weller-teases-with.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&amp;gadget=a&amp;resize_h=100&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblastr.com%2Fassets_c%2F2011%2F12%2Fpeter_weller-thumb-550x386-78216.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">Filming on J.J. Abrams&#8217; Star Trek sequel may be over, but our search for clues to who&#8217;s playing who isn&#8217;t. We already think we know who Benedict Cumberbatch is, and now co-star Peter Welle&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110201780316922068503\/posts\/fxy6zkn6DfV\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H4>Related Awesome<\/H4><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Adventure Time + Studio Ghibli Mashup is Just Epic Enough To Work\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/adventure-time-studio-ghibli\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Adventure Time + Studio Ghibli Mashup is Just Epic Enough To Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A Prediction From Nostradumbass: A Christmas Story\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/nostradumbass-christmas-story\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Prediction From Nostradumbass: A Christmas Story<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Thank God For The Avengers, For Saving us From Battleship\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/avengers-vs-battleship\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Thank God For The Avengers, For Saving us From Battleship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hope Peter Weller is playing a villain in Star Trek 2. His turn as the main baddie on 24 gave us some of that series&#8217; last great moments. Then again, he also lent a badass robotic edge to hero Alex Murphy in RoboCop, so I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s perfectly capable of doing almost any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[158,372,327],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who&#039;s Peter Weller Playing in Star Trek 2? - Paper Awesome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I really hope Peter Weller is playing a villain in Star Trek 2. 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